Benjamin Franklin

Majority Of Americans Say Founding Fathers Would Be Disappointed: Poll

CNN | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics


According to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey, 69 percent of adult Americans who responded to a poll June 26-29 said the signers of the Declara...

John Adams vs Tom Jefferson = Hillary Clinton vs Barack Obama

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Benjamin R. Barber

The birth of the American Republic was accompanied by enough controversy, bitterness, infighting and rage to sink the project before it ever got off the ground.

Keep the Republic

Robert Koehler | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics


Robert Koehler

Without an intense degree of citizen involvement at the structural level our government will soon default to something far simpler: one that is of, by and for whoever seizes power.

Daylight Saving Time: 5 Fun Facts

Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 03.08.2008 | Living


A Friendly HuffPost Reminder: It's Daylight Saving Time! So, tonight (tomorrow?) at 2AM, it will be time to turn your clocks forward ("Spring Ahead, ...

The Founding Celebrities

Eric Burns | Posted 11.05.2007 | Media


Eric Burns

Alexander Hamilton was no less ambitious than Ryan Seacrest, but to Hamilton and the other Founding Fathers, fame was different then from what it is now.


 

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